Shapps announces a replacement with Portugal’s addition to Covid’s product list; Birmingham “should be on Covid’s watch list” as cases escalat; Sturgeon helps keep Scotland on existing blockade as the country posts 77 new cases
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Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon is asking the government to publish evidence of its resolve to bring Croatia and other countries on its quarantine list.
PA’s news firm has just released its update on the seven-day mobile rate of new Covid-19 instances for the local authority domain in England.
The figures, for the seven days prior to 17 August, correspond to tests carried out in laboratories (first pillar of the Government’s testing programme) and in the Giant network (second pillar).
The rate is expressed in the number of new instances consistent with 100,000 inhabitants. Data from the last 3 days (18-20 August) have been excluded, incomplete and are subject to review.
In Oldham, 187 new instances were registered in the seven days leading up to August 17, 78.9 of 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 111.8 in the seven days to 10 August.
Northampton is at about the same point as Oldham at 78.4, up from 74.4, with 176 new cases.
Blackburn with Darwen is third, where the rate has risen from 81.5 to 67.5, with 101 new cases.
In Leicester, it continues to fall from 70.3 to 52.5, with 186 new cases.
Other spaces that record notable jumps week after week include: – Manchester (38.5 to 49.0, with 271 new cases) – Bury (22.0 to 33.0, with 63 new cases) – Stoke-on-Trent (compared to 15.6) to 26.1, with 67 new cases)
Less than a third of other people in England who were tested for coronavirus in the general population get their effects within 24 hours; Boris Johnson has promised that all effects will be reversed within that time two months ago.
Knowledge of lacheck in the NHS Track and Trace program shows that 60.5% of other people who verified Covid-19 in the week ended August 12 in a regional or cellular verification unit, a verification called “in person”, got their result within 24 hours.
Of those reviewed this week at a satellite control center, only 1.2% achieved their effects within 24 hours, while only 3.8% of others who used home control kits achieved effects within 24 hours.
In the 4 types of tests in the community at large, known as the pillar of the moment, only 28.2% of others gained effects within 24 hours.
This is less than 34.4% last week and 57.4% of the week ended July 1, according to the data.
The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (DHSC) said the delays were due to a failure in the PC formula in one of the laboratories that delayed processing and caused a delay. The in-person tests would return within 24 hours.
He told the House of Commons on 3 June that he would get “all the evidence returned within 24 hours to the end of June, with the exception of difficulties with postal testing or insurmountable disorders like that.”
Much of oldham’s attention on infection rates focuses on the city’s Asian community.
But a pub in the thriving – and largely white – Saddleworth Uppermill domain has just been ordered to close through Oldham City Council for “continuously” violating closing regulations.
A meat processing plant in Co Antrim will temporarily close after 35 members tested positive for coronavirus.
Cranswick Country Foods in Cullybackey, which processes pigs, will close from Saturday night for a full cleaning and to allow everyone to be examined for Covid-19, the company confirmed.
In a statement, Cranswick Country Foods said: “There has been a recent increase in the number of cases shown of Covid-19 in Ballymena and in the region as a whole, which has been identified as a network problem.
“As a result, we can verify that several colleagues in our Ballymena have tested positive for Covid-19. In collaboration with the Public Health Authority (PHA), we have taken the resolution to send all our colleagues for the test.
“If the effects of the control are positive, the individual will have to self-isolate for 10 days; If the effects of the control are negative, the user will want to isolate himself for 14 days.
“As a result, you will have to temporarily suspend production.”
The Unite union, which has members at the Cranswick plant, said it seeks an urgent explanation of control over the length of the group and the company’s plans to ensure the protection of the facility when it reopens.
Unite is also a guarantee that staff who are sent home for self-isolation will not suffer any loss of wages.
Liam Gallagher, Unite’s regional manager, said: “The successful meat processing sector is based on unsafe and low-paid personnel who would possibly be reluctant to report symptoms or isolate themselves because they are concerned about a loss of wages.
According to the Department of Health, 51 other people in Northern Ireland tested positive for the virus on Thursday.
Approximately 298 other people have tested positive for the virus in the last seven days, basically in the central and eastern area of Antrim and Belfast.
Following the tightening of restrictions in Northern Ireland this afternoon, the Northern Ireland Police Service arrested a guy in his 40s for allegations of “malicious” comments on social media by Robin Swann, the regional fitness minister.
Swann, the former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), said in response: “I would like others to address this frustration and anger that they oppose me as a minister, as to fitness service personnel or frontline staff.”
But his successor at the helm of the UUP, Steve Aiken, condemned the threats by declaring:
The fierce threats of violence opposed to Robin Swann are surely despicable. Robin’s torrent of abuse and lies has been inflicted through unnamed trolls and others who are better informed has been abhorrent. No one has to put up with that. It was long before Twitter and other social media platforms took on their responsibilities.
“This is rarely the first time Robin has gained threats of physical violence that oppose him, but he deserves to be the last. He accepted a task that no one else sought and spent long days and nights making difficult decisions, running with his colleagues in the Department of Health and the NHS, to protect the public from a global pandemic, as we haven’t faced in a hundred years. He was verbally assaulted, threats of physical violence were made against him and his family, and attempted to undermine his intelligent character.
The Daily Mirror’s deputy editor-in-chief, Kevin Maguire, is one of many potential tourists who now cancel their trips after Croatia and other countries were removed from the UK’s list of quarantine-free “travel runners.”
Blocking limitations may be stricter at Blackburn and Pendle in Eastern Lancashire, Inzy Rashid reports from Sky News. Currently, both spaces are subject to “enhanced measures,” as are Greater Manchester and parts of West Yorkshire, which limit home and garden meetings.
Dominic Harrison, Blackburn’s director of public health, says some of all the cases shown with coronavirus are in the same homes. Most infections are clustered in very small areas, he said, announcing a “hyperlocal approach” to combating epidemics from now on.
He writes in the Lancashire Telegraph:
Here, someone, perhaps a younger member of the house, has become inflamed and may be asymptomatic. They will unknowingly pass it on to other family members, and as an older member develops symptoms, the total circle of family members will undergo tests and find that they are all positive. A large number of the remaining instances in the municipality are grouped into very small areas, in several streets, statistically in a “lower overproduction area”: about 1,500 people. Here, it is transparent that the transmission should take place between the circle of family, friends and neighbors.
Blackburn has about double the rates of the national average, he said, but the numbers remain worrying:
So far, despite our most productive efforts, we still have one of the highest transmission rates in the country. We had our highest case rate consistent with 100,000 inhabitants in the week ending August 12. We had a Covid-confirmed case rate of 94.7 consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, which is 141 cases consistent with the week. Our verification rates remain about double the national average of 210, consistent with 100,000 and our positivity rate is 6.5 consistent with a penny. It’s also the highest point of the last few weeks.
If we need to avoid a total blockage through central government, we will now need to be even more prescriptive about what can and cannot be done, to target the behaviors we know are likely to transmit the virus and move to a stricter approach. implementation approach. violations of the guidelines.
What we’ll take from now on will want to be even more targeted at superior transmission hyperlocal spaces.
Shapps stated that the resolution to replace brokers took into account a number of factors, including:
Shapps said Portugal has now been added to the runners list, meaning passengers there will no longer have to be quarantined for 14 days.
Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago will be removed from the UK flag list, said maritime transport secretary Grant Shapps.
This means that those returning from those countries must be quarantined for 1 four days if they return after four a.m. on Saturday.
The Belfast Telegraph has more important points on tightening restrictions in Northern Ireland.
He reports that Northern Ireland’s fitness secretary Robin Swann is talking about a “significant and difficult” outbreak at a meat processing plant in Co Antrim, after 35 new cases emerged among staff, some of whom infected friends and family.
“All plant personnel will now have to isolate themselves,” he said, adding that the plant will be closed to allow for complete cleaning and testing of the staff’s body. “I’m starting to worry about increasing network transmission,” he said. “There will be no additional flexibility of other measures.
Swann said the R rate in Northern Ireland lately is 1.3 and “definitely” is higher than 1, the newspaper reported.
The UK government said another 41403 people had died in the UK within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 at 5pm on Wednesday, an increase of six the day before.
Separate figures published through UK statistics agencies show that there are now 57,000 deaths recorded in the UK where the coronavirus indexed on the death certificate.
The government also said that by 9 a.m. on Thursday, there were 1,182 laboratory-confirmed cases of coronavirus. A total of 322,280 cases were confirmed.
Blocking restrictions are tightening in Northern Ireland after new coronavirus infections were reported overnight. This from BBC correspondent in Northern Ireland, Chris Page:
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